Abraham N.O. Kwakye

About

Rev. Dr. Abraham Nana Opare Kwakye is the 19th Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG). His research interests are in African Christianity, Church History and Missions. He has taught courses in Early Church History, Reformation, Pentecostalism in Ghana, Christianity in Africa, and West Africa Church History. He obtained his PhD in the Study of Religions from the University of Ghana, Legon in 2011.

Education

PhD, University of Ghana, July 2011

B.A (Hons), University of Ghana, May 2005

Certificate in Ministry, Trinity Theological Seminary, July 2007

Diploma in Study of Religions, University of Ghana, June 1996

Teachers Certificate ‘A’, University of Cape Coast, May 1991

Research Interest

African Christianity, Church History, Missions, World Christianity.

Publications

Kwakye, A. N. O., (2024), “African Initiatives and Sources in Christian History: Paolo Mohenu (1809-1886), a Gold Coast Traditional Priest who Became a Basel Mission Evangelist” in African History Between Ghana and Switzerland: Essays Honouring Paul Jenkins. E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor & Anne Beutter (eds.) (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographen) 113-123.      

Buertey E. and Kwakye, A. N. O. (2024), “In Pursuit of Contextual Christian Ministry in an African Church: Exploring the Story of Rev. E.N. Anim, a Twentieth Century Ghanaian Presbyterian Revivalist, in Ecclesiology in Africa,  David K. Ngaruiya and Rodney L. Reed (eds.) (Carlisle, Cumbria: Langham Publications, 2024)

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2021), “The Lord’s Supper in an African Reformed Church” Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, 21:1.

Amenga-Etego, R. M., Kwakye, A. N. O. (2021) Emeka-Nwobia, N. & Onovoh, P.  and Fretheim, S.  “Language, Literature, Prayer, and Music Repertoires as Sources of African Christian Spirituality and Values”, International Bulletin of Mission Research (45), 111-120. 

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2020). Nii Noi Dowuona of Osu - A Christian King in Africa. Interkulturelle Theologie, Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft 2 (46). Jahrgang.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2019). He came to his own’ – Indigenous reception and African  initiatives in Basel Mission History.  Journal of African Christian Thought 22 (2), 42-49. 

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2018). Returning African Christians in Mission to the Gold  Coast. In Studies in World Christianity 24.1: 25–45. 

 Kwakye, A. N. O.   (2018). The Presbyterian Church of Ghana In J. K. Asamoa-Gyadu (ed.), Christianity in Ghana: Vol. 1 – A Post-Colonial History. Accra: Sub- Saharan Publishers, 30-47.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2018). “Crucify the cocoa – The Basel Mission Church in the Gold Coast and the threat of the cocoa boom. n R. A. Fening and A. M. Howell (eds.), The ‘Golden Pod’: Its Religious, Socio- Economic and Political Impact on the Gold Coast and Ghana. Akropong: Regnum Africa, 50-67.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2017). “The sixteenth-century reformation and lessons for the contemporary  Church in Africa,”  Journal of African Christian Thought, 20.2 : 38-45.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2016). “Mission impossible becomes possible: West Indian  missionaries and mission in the Gold Coast” in Interkulturelle Theologie, Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, 2-3/, 42 Jahrgang. 

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2015). Encountering ‘prosperity’ gospel in 19th century Gold Coast:  Indigenous perceptions of Western Missionary Societies. In A. Heuser (Ed.), Pastures of Plenty: Tracing   Religio-Scapes of Prosperity Gospel in Africa and Beyond (Studies in the Intercultural  History of Christianity, Vol. 161). Frankfurt et al.: Peter  Lang.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2015). “Wie die Maserung in einem Stück Holz – Die Spuren der Basler Mission in Ghana. In Sonderheft auftrag– Pioniere Weltenbummler, Brückenbauer Nr.1/0 86-89.

Kwakye, A. N. O. (2015). Mission und Kultur. Unterwegs zu den Anderen, 200 Jahre Basler  Mission und Württemberg Nr. 17, Stuttgart,  124-125.

Omenyo, C. N. & Kwakye, A. N. O. (2014). ‘Authentically African, authentically Anglican’, in  C.   N. Omenyo & E. Anum (eds) Trajectories of Religion in Africa. Essays in honour of John S. Pobee. Rodopi, Amsterdam.

Knispel, M. and Kwakye, A. N. O. (Ed.), (2006). Pioneers of the Faith: Biographical Studies from  Ghanaian Church History. Akropong, Akuapem Presbytery Press.